MAXWELL YOUNG

Communications | Government Operations | Resilience

Maxwell Young currently serves as the Chief Public Affairs Officer at Everytown for Gun Safety, bringing deep expertise in communications, public policy, and politics to the work he does. He has been a senior executive at a number of high-profile organizations, including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Rockefeller Foundation and the office of Senate Minority Leader Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY). Max spent nearly seven years working for Senator Schumer in a variety of senior positions, including Communications Director and Deputy State Director. In 2014 he left Capitol Hill to help the Rockefeller Foundation build 100 Resilient Cities - a new global organization created to assist cities around the world in developing long term strategies to address the social, economic and physical challenges they face.